[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 57 (Friday, March 22, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 11866]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-6934]



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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act

    Notice is hereby given that a proposed consent decree embodying a 
partial settlement in United States versus Allied-Signal, Inc., Civil 
Action No. 93-6490 MRP, was lodged on March 14, 1996, with the United 
States District Court for the Central District of California. The 
decree resolves the liability of the settling defendants for 
reimbursement of response costs incurred pursuant to the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, 42 U.S.C. 9601 
et seq., by the United States Environmental Protection Agency at the 
North Hollywood Operable Unit (``NHOU'') of the San Fernando Valley 
Basin Superfund Site (``SFVB''), in the greater Los Angeles Area. The 
settling defendants, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Airport Group 
International, Inc., Waste Management Recycling & Disposal Services of 
California, Inc., CalMat Co., Pick-Your-Part Auto Wrecking, Pacific 
Steel Treating Company, Inc., Fleetwood Machine Products, Inc., the 
Erik and Else Bruun-Andersen Trust, and the Amended Cooke Family Trust, 
have agreed to pay a total of $4.75 million to the United States to 
resolve their liability for past and future NHOU response costs and 
past SFVB Basin-wide costs through April 30, 1992.
    The Department of Justice will receive, for a period of thirty (30) 
days from the date of this publication, comments relating to the 
proposed consent decree. Comments should be addressed to the Assistant 
Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division, 
Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. 20530, and should refer to 
United States v. Allied-Signal, Inc., DOJ Ref. #90-11-3-1149.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the office of the 
United States Attorney, Central District of California, Federal 
Building, Room 7516, 300 North Los Angeles Street, Los Angeles, 
California; the Region IX Office of the Environmental Protection 
Agency, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, California; and at the 
Consent Decree Library, 1120 G Street, N.W., 4th Floor, Washington, 
D.C. 20005, (202) 624-0892. A copy of the proposed consent decree may 
be obtained in person or by mail from the Consent Decree Library, 1120 
G Street, N.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20005. In requesting a copy 
please refer to the referenced case and enclose a check in the amount 
of $12.00 (25 cents per page reproduction costs), payable to the 
Consent Decree Library.
Joel Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 96-6934 Filed 3-21-96; 8:45 am]
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